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#Law 📸: Dr Ocatre Ronald Miria, Courtesy Photo. By Wallnet News. ARUA.  The High Court of Arua has dismissed with costs a case of defamation filed by Dr. Ronald Miria Ocatre, a staff of Ministry of Health in Kampala against his former workmate, Eng. Timothy Malumah Ezati, the Maracha district Engineer and one other person identified as Mikeila Moseka. In the civil suit number 0004 of 2022, Ocatre alleged that on or about the months of March to April, 2021, Ezati and Moseka without any colour of right and justification made and issued numerous spiteful, untrue and defamatory Copy of the judgement statements against him on the allegation that he (Ocatre) wanted to hire Moseka to kill Ezati Timothy. Ocatre further stated in his suit that police investigated the allegations and the same were found to be false, a reason he took the matter to court. But in his defence, Ezati said his woes with Ocatre who worked for Maracha district as a Senior Heal...

Story by Osuta Yusuf.  #Law #Health #Service_Delivery 📸: Maracha District headquarter. Courtesy Photo. Friday 12-July-2024. 📸: Copy of the Lawsuit.  📸: Copy of the Lawsuit.  Some Maracha District local government staffs in the health department, have found themselves in a dilemma of both unpaid salaries and deletion of their names from the payroll. The five civil servants, namely; Phillip Ociti, Jamila Abaru, Moses Ezuma, Sophie Alesi, and Rogers Atama have dragged Maracha district local government to court over the wrongful withholding of their salaries. Through their lawyer Buga and Company Advocates, the civil servants argue that, the decision by the district to delete their names off the payroll was illegal and without due process. In the lawsuit filed at Arua High Court, the aggrieved staffs said they had not received salaries ranging between six months to over twelve months since June 2023. “The CAO of the respondents decided t...